Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Artworks

In the early 1970s New English Library reissued a selection of the late Brian Aldiss's novels and short-story collections, with fabulous covers by Bruce Pennington. Here are seven of them (I'm missing The Interpreter).

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That's very kind - but I've just checked abe books and copies can be had for a couple of quid. Only just realised that I was one short of the set (unless there are even more; listing in the books is a bit erratic)!

Here in the US, you see more 1970s-era books -- a small group of Vances or Brunners appearing on the shelves in a second-hand bookstore, for instance -- as some people have ditched their dead-tree editions of these particular authors because all their books have now been published in ebook form (effectively the case with Brunner and Vance).

However, I'm not sure how representative my experience is since I live in Berkeley, California, where at least ten or so bookstores still exist within a mile or so of my apartment. Bookstores have been decimated in other parts of the US, and not just in flyover country -- in Boston and Cambridge, MA, major stores were already closed when I went there a decade back.

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